bignums, gmp, bytestring, .. ?

Donald Bruce Stewart dons at cse.unsw.edu.au
Wed Nov 22 20:39:33 EST 2006


p.tanski:
> On Nov 19, 2006, at 3:20 PM, Jeremy Shaw wrote:
> >And, around this time, my interest in running yhi on PalmOS starts to
> >wane.
> 
> Awww... to my knowledge, that would be the first Haskell  
> implementation for PalmOS :)  As I mentioned in a prior email, there  
> is a Haskell arbitrary precision number library (BigFloat, at http:// 
> bignum.sourceforge.net/).  You might adapt it for Integer and add it  
> to Yhc if nothing else works.  I'm not crazy about BigFloat's  
> performance, though.

Pretty sure Tony Sloane et al at Macquarie have had nhc98 running on the
palm for quite a while. They've recently moved to YHC though, iirc.

-- Don


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